Those of you who read this blog on a regular basis will know that my university students are taking part in the Design Museum’s competition called The Design Factory. This year the brief investigates hand made and high tech – the uses of craft and industrial processes. So we’ve been […]
Trying to ignore the horrible weather and feeling like you’d like to create instead? Then look no further than GDP’s featured projects. For music lovers we’ve got The Visible Sounds Project and The Words Project. The first introduces you to a fantastic range of imaginative designers, artists and animators who […]
Meanwhile, back in Boston the Museum of Fine Arts is running an exhibition called Art in the Street about the golden age of the poster. The show runs until July 21st. Posters are linked very closely to the beginnings of graphic – or “commercial” – design itself. At the end […]
Philadephia Museum of Art is currently hosting an exhibition called Double Portrait about the American graphic designer, Paula Scher, and illustrator, Seymour Chwast. He is notable for being one of the founders, along with Milton Glaser, of the very influential Push Pin Studios. Scher and Chwast not only worked together but […]
E. & A. Mele & Co., fashion, latest merchandise, Naples, from a series advertising Mele department store, Aleardo Villa (Italian, 1865–1906) Publisher: Officine G. Ricordi & Company, Milan, Italy, about 1900, Color lithograph on card stock Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Promised gift of Leonard A. Lauder Courtesy Museum of Fine […]
This time of year sees organisations in both the USA and UK collecting data from garden bird counts that we can all join in with. GDP folk have been engaging in garden bird counts for years and it is really interesting to monitor the decline and increase of varying bird […]
Until 3rd February 2013 you can go to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, to have the winter blues blasted away in no uncertain terms by the uncompromising, super-heated photographs of Mario Testino. The exhibition is subtitled “In Your Face” and that is an exact description of the way that Testino […]
Christmas cards are a great resource of imagery. Much of their design is narrative or story-based imagery, such as the Nativity or simply just children playing in the snow, or bringing wood home for the fire. So this provides a good opportunity to help train your eye, or the kids’ eyes, in making analysis of narrative […]
Earlier this week I went with some students to London’s Design Museum to see two exhibitions that I anticipated might be full of shiny things to inspire for the Christmas season. Well, it wasn’t quite like that! The two shows were Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery and Digital […]
Want something to do to pass the holiday season time? The Graphic Design Project is looking for a few teens (or older!) to try out some of our projects and to give us feedback about re-developing them. Projects are for beginners in graphic design and portfolio-builders. If you are 14 […]
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